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NSA ‘hijacked’ criminal botnets to install spyware

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2014

By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – While U.S. law enforcement agencies have long tried to stamp out networks of compromised computers used by cyber criminals, the National Security Agency has been hijacking the so-called botnets as a resource for spying. The NSA has co-opted more than 140,000 computers since August 2007 for the purpose […]

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NSA Has ‘Industrial Scale’ Malware for Spying: Report

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Mar

2014

WASHINGTON – The National Security Agency has developed malware that allows it to collect data automatically from millions of computers worldwide, a report based on leaked documents showed Wednesday. The report co-authored by former Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald for the online news site The Intercept said the program has dramatically expanded the US spy agency’s […]

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Leaked Snowden documents detail NSA’s plans for ‘millions’ of malware attacks

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Mar

2014

Over the past months, leaked documents from the NSA, GCHQ, and other agencies have shed light on efforts to dramatically scale the process of putting malware on targets computers. At The Intercept, Glenn Greenwald and Ryan Gallagher have published more details about how these programs work, and what tools operatives use to compromise security — whether thats […]

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